Edited by Miriam Müller

DownloadTerms of UseThe volume is the result of the ninth annual University of Chicago
Oriental Institute Postdoc Seminar, held on March 16-17, 2013. Twenty
scholars specialized in the Old and New World from all over Europe and
the U.S. came together to find new approaches in the study of households
in complex societies. The papers in this volume present case studies
from the Near East, Egypt and Nubia, the Classical World, and
Mesoamerica, including three comparative responses from the perspective
of the different disciplines. By combining the archaeology record,
scientific data, and written documents, the papers examine and
contextualize different approaches and techniques in uncovering
household behavior from the material record and discuss their
suitability for the respective region and site. Building on the
methodological groundwork laid out in a number of recent publications on
household archaeology, the volume contributes to the methodological and
theoretical discussion, expands on the topics of society, identity, and
ethnicity in household studies, and opens up new avenues of research
such as the perception of space in this innovative field. At the same
time the papers reveal problems and disparities with which household
archaeology is still struggling. It is hoped that the variety of case
studies presented in this volume will further inspire the interested
reader to establish new research agendas and excavation strategies that
contribute to the development of the field in the various regions
covered in the different papers and beyond.

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CSV Tables

Each morning, tables summarizing published locations, names, and places are written to gzipped CSV files at http://atlantides.org/downloads/pleiades/dumps/.
Text in these files is UTF-8 encoded; some CSV readers (e.g., Microsoft
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pleiades-*-latest.csv.gz are symbolically linked to the most recent
catalog dumps. The schemas of these files are documented in a README.
The resources under http://pleiades.stoa.org/places/ remain the
canonical ancient world resources; the contents of the tables are only
thin slices. The recently modified page or its corresponding RSS feedare the best ways to track what is changing in these daily dumps.In addition to the individual resource editorial workflow, the
Pleiades project is developing a workflow for updating resources in bulk
using modified subsets of these dumped tables. After manipulating the
names table in Google Refine, we've successfully updated the attested
time periods of 2071 ancient names. We expect to be able to guide tables
modified by users through this same process soon.

Archaeogaming is a blog dedicated to the discussion of the
archaeology both of and in video games (console, computer, mobile,
etc.). If a game uses archaeology in some way (like the Archaeology
skill in World of Warcraft), we’ll discuss it here. If the
design and function of pottery, textiles, and architecture vary between
iterations of a game (e.g., Elder Scrolls), we’ll discuss it
here. If a game contains an archaeologist character class or NPC
(non-player character), we’ll discuss it here. We’ll review games
containing (or about) archaeology, too.

Rome’s enduring contribution to world civilization can, and should,
be communicated in a way that combines the hard facts, solid reasoning,
and new discoveries of university research with the excitement and
immediacy of on-location filming in Rome. If a picture is worth a
thousand words, then a video is worth a million.

Ancient Rome
Live (ARL) is an immersive journey that provides new perspectives about
the ancient city. A multi-platform learning experience, ARL first and
foremost presents original content:

a clickable map of ancient Rome

a library of videos arranged according to topic

live streaming from sites in Rome and her empire.

ARL
provides an interactive platform to engage the many layers of Rome:
monuments, people, places, and events. Ancient Rome Live is a valuable
resource for teachers- and a lot of fun for anyone interested in
history.

Later in 2015 ARL will release an ebook, app, and free
online course. WIth all of these new, coordinated formats, ARL will
change the way ancient Rome is studied.

The Israel Museum welcomes you to the Dead Sea Scrolls Digital
Project, allowing users to examine and explore these most ancient
manuscripts from Second Temple times at a level of detail never before
possible. Developed in partnership with Google, the new website gives
users access to searchable, fast-loading, high-resolution images of the
scrolls, as well as short explanatory videos and background information
on the texts and their history. The Dead Sea Scrolls, which include the
oldest known biblical manuscripts in existence, offer critical insight
into Jewish society in the Land of Israel during the Second Temple
Period, the time of the birth of Christianity and Rabbinic Judaism. Five
complete scrolls from the Israel Museum have been digitized for the
project at this stage and are now accessible online.

"We are privileged to house in the Israel Museum's Shrine of the Book
the best preserved and most complete Dead Sea Scrolls ever discovered,"
said James S. Snyder, Anne and Jerome Fisher Director of the Israel
Museum. "They are of paramount importance among the touchstones of
monotheistic world heritage, and they represent unique highlights of our
Museum's encyclopedic holdings. Now, through our partnership with
Google, we are able to bring these treasures to the broadest possible
public."

The five Dead Sea Scrolls that have been digitized thus far include
the Great Isaiah Scroll, the Community Rule Scroll, the Commentary on
Habakkuk Scroll, the Temple Scroll, and the War Scroll, with search
queries on Google.com sending users directly to the online scrolls. All
five scrolls can be magnified so that users may examine texts in
exacting detail. Details invisible to the naked eye are made visible
through ultra-high resolution digital photography by photographer Ardon
Bar-Hama– at 1,200 mega pixels each, these images are almost two hundred
times higher in resolution than those produced by a standard camera.
Each picture utilized UV-protected flash tubes with an exposure of
1/4000th of a second to minimize damage to the fragile manuscripts. In
addition, the Great Isaiah Scroll may be searched by column, chapter,
and verse, and is accompanied by an English translation tool and by an
option for users to submit translations of verses in their own
languages.

Prof. Dr. Reinhard Förtsch, Prof. Dr. Henner von Hesberg, Prof. Dr. Walter Müller, Prof. Dr. Ingo Pini
The Corpus of the Minoan and Mycenaean Seals (CMS) has been published
exclusively in a printed version since being established in 1958. The
project’s aim is the scholarly publication of every preserved seal and
clay cast from the Aegean Bronze Age. Most of the Corpus should be
digitized, updated and available on the internet for free before the
project ends in 2011. The final volume CMS XIV, which contains the
typology that is essential to the project, is already in progress and
the index of the entire work, including summaries of the most important
themes of the seal research, will be developed comprehensively...

Bruce Hartzler (Agora Excavations) has delivered from Athens a stunning
set of additions to his ongoing electronic publication project, Metis: A
QTVR Interface for Ancient Greek Archaeological Sites, which now
includes 51 multi-node panoramas. Bruce has enhanced this beautifully
photographed archive with hotlinks throughout to the pertinent
archaeological materials provided on-line by the Perseus Project,
including the Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, plans, and
other documentation of sites and architectural remains.

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An update on work in progress by the international
Digital Corpus of Literary Papyri Project, co-directed by Roger Bagnall
(ISAW) and Rodney Ast (Institut für Papyrologie, Heidelberg).

by
Tom Elliott
—
Apr 16, 2015

In 2013, ISAW and the Papyrological Institute at the University of Heidelberg in Germany were recipients of parallel grants from the US National Endowment for the Humanities and the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
or DFG). The funding request had been designed to unite researchers not
only at ISAW and Heidelberg, but at other institutions around the
world, in extending the existing digital publication infrastructure for
ancient works written on papyrus
in order to address the particular and challenging needs of literary
and sub-literary texts like medical treatises, philosophical and
scientific works, fiction, poetry, drama, and scripture. The project
team, therefore, is refining and extending the software and practices
developed for Papyri.info
— the largest on-line publication of ancient documentary texts — to
provide for the extended lengths, unique structural features, and
greater variety of symbols found in the literary papyri, as well as
variations in scholarly apparatus and analytical encoding mechanisms
necessary for the associated genres. This work involves not only
software changes, but also the preparation of descriptive records and
digital editions using the EpiDoc conventions for text encoding, a standard format maintained by an international collaborative in which ISAW participates.

Significant progress has been made. Teams at Heidelberg and Leuven University's Trismegistos project have worked together to create descriptive records for over 14,000 literary and sub-literary papyri, drawing on data from the Leuven Database of Ancient Books and other resources. The Würzburg team has concentrated its efforts on the Herculaneum papyri,
creating additional descriptive records for over 250 of these uniquely
complex and difficult objects. These teams have also been working
together to prepare texts, of which nearly 200 have been prepared,
including 99 of the Herculaneum papyri...

The following links provide some examples of individual documents
(all fragmentary) as presented in the ever-improving test development
environment.

A scribal exercise on a single sheet of papyrus featuring a repeated line of Homer's Iliad, executed in the first century CE and discovered at Premis in Egypt (now in Cairo).

The Biography-Page of 4 Enoch Online Encyclopedia provides access to the biographies of more than 4,000 scholars, authors and artists who have contributed to the study of Second Temple Judaism (Jewish, Christian & Islamic Origins), from the 15th century to the present.

The primary focus of the project is notice and comment on open access material relating to the ancient world, but I will also include other kinds of networked information as it comes available.

The ancient world is conceived here as it is at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University, my academic home at the time AWOL was launched. That is, from the Pillars of Hercules to the Pacific, from the beginnings of human habitation to the late antique / early Islamic period.

AWOL is the successor to Abzu, a guide to networked open access data relevant to the study and public presentation of the Ancient Near East and the Ancient Mediterranean world, founded at the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago in 1994. Together they represent the longest sustained effort to map the development of open digital scholarship in any discipline.